106 PENTANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Vibumum. 



stem, densely covered with fine, close, bristly hairs, all directed 

 towards the point j leajlets oblong-lanceolate, the lower ones 

 ovate, all coarsely serrated, and sometimes deeply notched, sin- 

 gle-ribbed, veiny j the odd one largest. Footstalks somewhat 

 dilated at the lower part, often hairy. Umbels rather small and 

 dense, bristly, as well as their linear, general and partial, brae- 

 teas. Teeth of the calyx veiy unequal. Fl. reddish, more or 

 less radiant, the outermost petal with equal lobes, the 2 next 

 with extremely unequal ones. Seeds nearly orbicular : exter- 

 nally bristly ; the disk a little convex, marked with 4 brown 

 longitudinal lines 3 the border pale, tumid, wrinkled sufficiently 

 to determine the generic character, though not so elegantly as 

 in the preceding, and beset with direct bristles ; the inside of 

 each seed, with the border, quite smooth, with 2 close^ parallel, 

 brown lines, in the middle. 



^EI^TA^'DEIA TRIGYNIA. 



173. VIBURNUM. Guelder-rose. 



Linn.GenA47. Juss.2l3. Fl.Br.334. Toiirn. t.377. Lam.t.2\\. 



Gcertn. t.27 . 

 Opulus. Tourn. t. 376. 



Nat. Orel. Dumosa;, Linn. 43. Caprifolia, Jiiss. 5S, Re- 

 quires revision. N. 174 the same. 



Cal. superior, minute, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep segments, per- 

 manent. Cor. of 1 petal, shordy funnel-shaped, with 5 

 obtuse, spreading, not quite equal, marginal lobes. Fi- 

 lam, 5, awl-shaped, spreading, about the length of the 

 corolla, inserted into its tube, alternate widi the segments. 

 AntJi. roundish. Germ, inferior, roundish, a little com- 

 pressed. Style none. Stigmas 3, sessile, obtuse. Berr;i/ 

 roundish, either globular or compressed, of 1 cell. Seed 

 solitary, hard, roundish, compressed. 



Shrubs, with opposite, stalked, simple, smooth or downy, 

 leaves, red in autumn. Fl. white or reddish, numerous, 

 in terminal cj/}?ces. Berries red, or purplish-black, not 

 eatable. 



